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That's harsh. Jones was Young's coach from his Super Rugby debut till just before his retirement. Where is this other Bill Young we can use as a benchmark?

Meh. We've had much worse performances under other coaches.

Certainly a deliberate move away from the scrum, and towards the breakdown. The lineout setpiece was world class. Jones was an experimenter, as we also know from having two sevens. I don't think the Wallabies suffered much from his coaching. We endured a humiliation, but also some memorable...

Yeah, I was there. But I find it hard to blame Jones. Who else was he to pick in the front row? We do loseto England: that's in the nature of a 65% win record. If heads had to roll after each loss, there'd be no heads left.

Where are you in WA, mate?

Eddie's theories were disproved by him failing to consistently defeat the All Blacks. Oh, how I pine for those days when we consistently defeated the All Blacks, and the rugby theories that made it possible, so we could implement them now.

A relatively small stadium that sometimes fills completely is fine. Some people miss out sometimes. Unlucky. But regular users get a better experience often. What SFS needs is a quality upgrade, not more seats. How often has SFS actually sold out, and when has anyone ever considered that to be...

I'm going to go out on a limb here, but the laws are simple once you understand them. The perceptual problem is that some people think they're more complex than they are because they've never tried, and in the spirit of empty vessels everywhere, it's them that make the most noise. I don't...

What's wrong with the SCG, one of the great cricket grounds of the world?

Presumably they'll build a new bowl inside the old one.

He thought he saw crabs. Most people go crabbing with some cloth on a string, but Giteau showed real commitment from the start.

Little Herbert Larkham sounds like an old-school bantamweight boxer.

It's Perrth.

Sure the Brumbies are playing better, but for the coach to publicly declare that the Waratahs' performance was woeful and inept, and not up to the standard required of professional players, is just hyperbole.

Sorry Brown Hornet I wasn't putting words in your mouth there. :) Yes, Hunt would be good. Or Lilo as Brumby Runner suggests. Dwyer himself was banging on about Beale at 13 for a while. Generally speaking, he seems to want a fast man with excellent hands rather than an out-and-out playmaker...

Our kids undoubtedly come out of the age group system with inferior skills compared to the Kiwis.

I think you'd have to be some kind of bodacious drama queen to say those things at this stage. Using up all your superlatives leaves you with nothing to say when the side really does play badly. That said, this is the Internet. As you were.

In the Dwyer system, the ball player plays at 13. The argument is that this gets a playmaker closer to the outside channels, where a break is more lilely to occur. The first receiver then has the choice of passing to the crash 12 or to the wider receiver. In fairness to Dwyer this isn't...

And despite what the SMH's resident idiot, Paul Cully said, he's having a very good season.

What do you expect them to say? We're doing it wrong and are going to stop trying now?